Friday 4 March 2011

Diploes (Intermolecular Bonding)

Dipolar molecules are any molecules that have a positive end, and a negative end.

When a molecule has a dipole it is polarised.

This is a force that binds molecules together.

This is what guides physical states (Whether something is Solid, Gaseous or Liquid etc.)

There are three types of Dipoles:

1- Permanent Dipoles:
HCl molecules have a dipole.
When two atoms sharing a (covalent) bond, and have a really, really, really different electro-negativity (Different charges), they become permanent dipoles, because they're so, so, so attracted to each other. Cute.

HCl has a permanent dipole as Cl has a much higher electronegativity than H.

2- Instantaneous Dipoles:
This happens completely randomly.
This is when the electrons in a molecule suddenly move to one side of the "Cloud", instead of being evenly distributed.


When this happens next to other molecules, Induced Dipoles occur!


3- Induced Dipoles:
This happens completely randomly.
This is when the electrons in a molecule suddenly move to one side of the "Cloud", instead of being evenly distributed.

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